Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological...

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Alex A. Moulton Dylan M. Harris

Political Ecologies of Futurity

Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice

Alex A. Moulton, Dylan M. Harris

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
27 November 2025

Social forecasting, future studies; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Environment and Society

Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice—examines the entanglements of memory, place, and nature in the face of global socioecological transformation. Speaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on different epistemological and methodological approaches, the chapters examine the plurality of climate change geographies. As painful as they are, the erasure of landscapes that are artefacts of coloniality, racial capitalism, and environmental injustice does not herald placid futures. Erasure can make the present sterile, allowing for apolitical visions of the future to manifest, futures in which marginalized communities are not present. This diminishes prospects for climate justice or any sense of equitable futurity. With ten chapters—featuring case studies from five countries and three distinct regions of the United States—along with an Introduction and Conclusion by the editors, 2 original poems, artistic sketch, and an Afterword from Mimi Sheller, this volume creatively demonstrates the potential of storytelling for making sense of climate change and the ecological politics of futures beyond the plantationocene. That is to say, the role storytelling can play in helping us understand the complex temporalities of socioecological transformation.

Edited by: Alex A. Moulton, Dylan M. Harris
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781666971811
ISBN 10: 1666971812
Series: Environment and Society
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 27 November 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Landscape Erasure in/as the Afterlives of Colonialism Rain Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part 2: Political Ecologies in the Wake of Capitalism’s Disasters Sacred Treasures for the Apocalypse Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Part 3: Liveable Futures Beyond Apocalypse Future imperfect Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Coda Conclusion Afterword

Alex A. Moulton is an assistant professor of geography and environmental science at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a faculty member at The CUNY Graduate Center. Dylan M. Harris is an assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS).

Reviews for Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice

""Grounded in Indigenous, Black, and Queer experiences and knowledges, Political Ecologies of Futurity takes the reader on a breathtaking journey across plantation lifeworlds and afterlives, exhorting us to live, think, remember, tell stories, and relate beyond the paralyzing frame of apocalyptic narratives. In an age of radical ecological unmaking, it bestows upon us the vital gift of hope and of justice as radical practices of the present, anchored in the collective and political work of reckoning, recognition, and repair amidst haunting pasts and grounded futures. A landmark work."" * Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua *